Barbara Hazard

Barbara Hazard is the author of "Off Nevsky Prospekt: Life Among Leningrad's Unofficial Artists, ' and illustrator of "The Summer Kitchen" by Sandra Gilbert. She received her BA in painting from the University of Illinois, Chicago, and her MA in art therapy from Lone Mountain College in San Francisco. She works mainly in the visual arts, most recently quilting, but has been taking her poetry seriously since the mid-1990s. Brought up on the south shore of Long Island, NY, Hazard has lived in...See more

Barbara Hazard is the author of "Off Nevsky Prospekt: Life Among Leningrad's Unofficial Artists, ' and illustrator of "The Summer Kitchen" by Sandra Gilbert. She received her BA in painting from the University of Illinois, Chicago, and her MA in art therapy from Lone Mountain College in San Francisco. She works mainly in the visual arts, most recently quilting, but has been taking her poetry seriously since the mid-1990s. Brought up on the south shore of Long Island, NY, Hazard has lived in Berkeley, CA, for forty years. Two other significant influences on both her poetry and her painting are St. Petersburg, Russia, and the St. Lawrence River. She spends summers working in both places. Hazard's favorite poets are Jane Kenyon and Theodore Roethke. She has three children and nine grandchildren. See less